Comic for Wednesday 1/25 (Early High Res)
January 25th is upon us! The first day of Winter-een-mas!
I like to spend Winter-een-mas playing games, obviously, but I also like to use the week to appreciate some of the great stuff I've played recently. So for this week, each day I'm going to post a page dedicated to a different game I enjoyed in the past year. There are more than seven, but I'm going to pick the seven that stood out the most to me when I think of the past year.
Sound off in the comments with your favorite experiences of the last year if you'd like to do the same, or let me know if/how you'll be celebrating in your own way.
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Stumbled across an indie game last month called Against the Storm and been addicted to it since. It's a roguelite colony builder, where you establish settlements in foreboding woods and try to satisfy colinist needs while having a different selection of buildings, positive and negative map modifiers, and races on each map. It's great because the most interesting part of colony games tends to be the start where you're struggling to fill everyone's needs, and that's the phase of the colony building genre this game focuses on. Takes me about three hours to play a map, and there's an over-arching meta progression that unlocks new rewards and challenges to keep the game feeling fresh.
This is going to sound ironic. Sonic Frontiers. I'm not a super sonic fan but I have all but 1 achievement in that game (It's now super hard because I kill most thing before I can reach the state of sonic I need 50 times ><) It just played like the original Horizon game for me.
Yeah, I feel this one. I didn't start playing Elden Ring till like a month ago because I feared the undue stress it would cause. But, I finally tried it and loved it. Oh baby it made it hurt so good.
Mass Effect Legendary Edition - due to *life* being busy and complicated I didn't have nearly as much time playing games as usual. But, I did start (and finish) the entire Mass Effect Trilogy again, with all the DLCs and everything rolled into the Legendary Edition. What a GAME(s)!
Watching Planet Crafter develop has been fun. It is a great example of a game that requires no elves, orcs, trolls, fairies, etc. to be completely engaging. It's just you against the planet. Fun! Sorry kids, PC only.
Gran Turismo 7. A hot mess of a game to begin with, and it still has it's flaws, but visually stunning and it's so much fun driving cars that you'll just never be able to afford
I got a PS5 last year, so I was late to Ratchet and Clank: A Rift Apart but that was the best game for me last year. Just fun, easy gaming.